Antonyms for coast
koʊstcoast

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.9 / 7 votes

1. coast

   Bank is a general term for the land along the edge of a water course; it may also denote a raised portion of the bed of a river, lake, or ocean; as, the Banks of Newfoundland. A beach is a strip or expanse of incoherent wave-worn sand, which is often pebbly or full of boulders; we speak of the beach of a lake or ocean; a beach is sometimes found in the bend of a river. Strand is a more poetic term for a wave-washed shore, especially as a place for landing or embarking; as, the keel grates on the strand. The whole line of a country or continent that borders the sea is a coast. Shore is any land, whether cliff, or sand, or marsh, bordering water. We do not speak of the coast of a river, nor of the banks of the ocean, tho there may be banks by or under the sea. Edge is the line where land and water meet; as, the water's edge. Brink is the place from which one may fall; as, the river's brink; the brink of a precipice; the brink of ruin.

   Synonyms:
   bank, beach, border, bound, brim, brink, edge, marge, margin, rim, shore, strand

Matched Categories

1. • Glide
   • Slope
   • View

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. seashore, coast, seacoast, sea-coastnoun

   the shore of a sea or ocean

   Synonyms:
   slide, sea-coast, glide, seacoast, seashore

2. coastnoun

   a slope down which sleds may coast

   "when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course"

   Synonyms:
   slide, sea-coast, glide, seacoast, seashore

3. coastnoun

   the area within view

   "the coast is clear"

   Synonyms:
   slide, sea-coast, glide, seacoast, seashore

4. slide, glide, coastverb

   the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it

   "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"

   Synonyms:
   seashore, semivowel, chute, sailing, slide, microscope slide, sea-coast, slideway, sliding board, swoop, lantern slide, soaring, gliding, seacoast, glide, playground slide, sailplaning, sloping trough

5. coastverb

   move effortlessly; by force of gravity

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1. coastnoun

   Synonyms:
   seashore, seaboard, seaside, shore, strand, beach

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. COAST

   Synonyms:
   Heparin-COAted Stents in Small Coronary Arteries Trial

How to use coast in a sentence?

1. Joe Kan:

   MUOS is going to bring a lot of capability, it's a very pervasive system, used by all the services - Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and other partners.

2. Juan Manuel:

   I have ordered the suspension of operations on the Pacific coast. We have confidence that General Alzate and his companions will be returned on Saturday.

3. Engelbert Humperdinck:

   Our 8pm prayer( West Coast time) is not just personal, as it goes out to all those who are suffering from the pandemic and other life threatening diseases.

4. Richard Scobey:

   We believe that any U.S. ban on cocoa imports from (Ivory Coast) will hurt, not help, it could push millions of poor farmers deeper into poverty, even though the vast majority of them are innocent of such practices.

5. Kelly Knudson:

   The nitrogen isotope is really good at reflecting seafood consumption, which is interesting to us, because these people were living on the Peruvian coast and had access to one of the richest fisheries in the world. But we didn't know how much of that they were using.

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